Money for daughters friends flight.........

[everylittle]

My daughter asked if her friend could come on holiday with us. I checked with her friends father when he dropped her off and he agreed that it would be ok for her to come and to let him know when we needed the money. The tickets arrived 2 weeks ago then my daughters friend said (via msn) that she couldn't come as she had got a job!! Still haven't been paid for the ticket...left a note through his door asking him to contact me....no reply.....what else can I do?

[~Wingnut~]

Hmmm that's a bit cheeky of them!
Your only choice here is maybe to try and get a refund or failing that sell the ticket on and expect the buyer to foot the name change charge.
If you can only get part of the money back if you do get a refund I would ask for the father to pay the difference, which I think is the very least they can do. You wouldn't have bought the ticket if there was a possiblity that she would change her mind. He needs to take a bit of responsibility here.
The thing here is you have to be careful for your daughter's sake as this is her friend but they are being unreasonable expecting you to foot the bill when they are the ones who pulled out.
I'm not sure if you can do anything other than the above but I'm sure if there is another aber will be along to offer you their wisdom :o)

[joko]

i agree, but you cant really expect the new person to pay for the ticket and then pay extra for the name change!

why should they, when they can just buy a fresh ticket?

whoever else takes the place, they are getting you out of a hole by covering the price of the ticket, so why should they be penalised and charged more?

i certainly wouldn't pay extra just because you didn't bother to get the money up front!

[society]

I agree with both posters. This is very unfair to you. Some people just lack morals and good manners. At least you will learn a lesson from this experience. I hope it's not a very expensive one.

I hope you and your daughter have a great, fun vacation. And while you all on vacation, the friend changes her mind about the job and regret not going with you all, and not owning up to the ticket responsibility.

[~Wingnut~]

Sorry joko your right, I think I was more thinking that everylittle will advertise the ticket and if someone wants it bad enough they will pay for the name change. Of course they shouldn't pay the extra because of someone else, it should be the ones who pulled out who foot the bill.
I was thinking one sided in everylittle's case and trying not to cost them even more money when it isn't their fault.

[Laurinha]

Hello... just thought I'd add that no airline (to my knowledge) will allow a complete name change on a ticket these days - even to get 2/3 letters of a misspelt-name changed is an ordeal.

That is very cheeky of the father not to give you the $$ for the ticket.

Laura x